About us

BOS Shelf LLC is a company formed by the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR). Since 2001 we have constructed Jackets (the largest being 18,300 te), plus associated Topsides, Subsea Infrastructure, Pile Sets and Templates for international and/or domestic clients.
In addition, Projects involving Upgrading of Drilling Rigs and Transportation Barge, EPC of Onshore Processing Plant and Operation of Supply Bases in support of offshore operations have been successfully undertaken.

Safety and Quality

BOS Shelf LLC is a company formed by the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR). Since 2001 we have constructed Jackets (the largest being 18,300 te), plus associated Topsides, Subsea Infrastructure, Pile Sets and Templates for international and/or domestic clients.
In addition, Projects involving Upgrading of Drilling Rigs and Transportation Barge, EPC of Onshore Processing Plant and Operation of Supply Bases in support of offshore operations have been successfully undertaken.

Project Management

In 2001 AIOC awarded BOS Shelf the Contract for AIOC of two(2) deep water jackets for Central Area Field which was the first phase of the full feed development of Azeri, Chirag and Deep Water Gunashli (ACG). This represented 26,000 te of Jacket structure and 14,000te of piles. The Project was delivered on schedule achieving Quality and Safety objectives.
Following on from the successful deliver of Phase 1, AIOC awarded 5 more deep water jackets for Phase 2 (2 Jackets) and Phase 3 (2 Jackets) followed by COP (1 Jacket). Jackets weights increased up to 18,000te and successfully delivered through 2005 to 2012. These represented over 120,000te of structure built to International Standard.
The most challenging Project was the current Shah Deniz 2 Gas Project. Two (2) 12,000te Jackets and 5 Subsea Clusters.
The subsea hardware consists of eight(8) SSIVs, three (3) export and five(5) infield, ten (10) FTAs and all interconnect piping spools.
The main scope completes in June 2017, with additional support Scope Continuing until 2020.
Considering the technical challenges of SD Bos shelf have to date successfully delivered 95 % of the project.
Major Projects are undertaken by deploying dedicated Project Management Teams who provide Safety, Quality, Engineering, Planning, Contract Administration and Construction Management. These teams are put together to address the specifics of a Project. Additionally, we have central support with respect to HR, Accounts, Procurement and Legal.
Our teams are multi-national, with extensive experience in successfully completing major Oil and Gas Projects.

Our team during construction works

Workforce

BOS Shelf has a workforce of 2200 employees (fabricators, welders, riggers, warehousemen, electricians, plant fitters, crane drivers, and plant operators) and staff of 400 employees (safety, QA/QC, project management, engineering, accounts, HR, and commercial). Additionally, we have an additional 300 employees and 170 staff working in Logistics.
This workforce covers our core busines and we have extensive training facilities and competence assurance programmes in place to maintain/augment their skill levels.
Our workforce is supplemented by specalist subcontractors as required for scaffolding and painting, electrical, instrumentation and hydraulics, and non-destructive testing.

Facilities

The Baku Deepwater Jacket Facility (BDJF) which is operated by BOS Shelf is the largest construction facility (220 hectares) on the Caspian Sea. The facility has extensive workshops (rolling, prefabrication, fabrication, erection, painting), quays (including those for heavy lifting and loadout), warehouses, logistic bases along with all the plant and equipment necessary to support this, with heavy lift crawler cranes up to 1350 tonnes.
Recently, we have developed a Custom Coating Facility for the application of polyeurathane coatings, heavy wall inconnel welding technology and the associated phased array ultrasonic testing techniques.